Mental Health Bureau Appointments.—The Government of the District of Columbia, Department of Public Health, announced that on Jan. 4, Dr. David A. Lanham and Dr. Irving L. Berman joined the staff of the Legal Psychiatric Services Division. Dr. George Chornesky was appointed acting chief, Alcoholic Rehabilitation Division, effective Jan. 11, succeeding Dr. Jean H. Menetrez, who will continue to work with the bureau as staff psychiatrist in the Adult Mental Health Division on a part-time basis.

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Research Building to Be Dedicated.—The University of Miami School of Medicine will dedicate its new research building on March 3 in an outdoor ceremony at the Medical Center in Miami. The building, nine stories high and containing 90,000 square feet of space, provides laboratory facilities for all departments of the school. Construction took 18 months, and funds were obtained from the U. S. Public Health Service, from Dade